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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Maryland Insurance Administration - Pharmacy Services Administrative Organizations - Regulation"
+description: "Maryland Insurance Administration - Pharmacy Services Administrative Organizations - Regulation"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 978"
+citation: "Maryland HB 978 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Barron", "Belcastro", "Bhandari", "Carr", "Charles", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Hill", "Johnson", "K. Young", "Kelly", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Krebs", "Morgan", "Pena-Melnyk", "Pendergrass", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "Saab", "Sample-Hughes", "Szeliga"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-02-05"
+last_action: "2020-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4da5e178-0f3a-4920-a0cb-27faff12f25c"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0978?ys=2020RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "ef4ec5bc3fc13c6f451f1dfd6b54b0962c159134e4b2687f1570109eef3fafb9"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
+---
+
+# Maryland HB 978 (2020) — Maryland Insurance Administration - Pharmacy Services Administrative Organizations - Regulation
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Maryland Insurance Administration - Pharmacy Services Administrative Organizations - Regulation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_399_hb0978e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - Maryland Insurance Administration - Pharmacy Services Administrative Organizations - Regulation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0978e.pdf)
+3. **First - Maryland Insurance Administration - Pharmacy Services Administrative Organizations - Regulation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0978f.pdf)
+4. **Third - Maryland Insurance Administration - Pharmacy Services Administrative Organizations - Regulation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0978t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **133–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **130–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading (Amend) — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bagnall — primary (person)
+- Barron — primary (person)
+- Belcastro — primary (person)
+- Bhandari — primary (person)
+- Carr — primary (person)
+- Charles — primary (person)
+- Chisholm — primary (person)
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Johnson — primary (person)
+- K. Young — primary (person)
+- Kelly — primary (person)
+- Kerr — primary (person)
+- Kipke — primary (person)
+- Krebs — primary (person)
+- Morgan — primary (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- Pendergrass — primary (person)
+- R. Lewis — primary (person)
+- Reilly — primary (person)
+- Rosenberg — primary (person)
+- Saab — primary (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
+- Szeliga — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-02-05** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-06** Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2020-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-13** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2020-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-15** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-17** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-17** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-17** Floor Amendment {
+- **2020-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2020-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-18** House Concurs Senate Amendments
+- **2020-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-18** Passed Enrolled
+- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 399 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4da5e178-0f3a-4920-a0cb-27faff12f25c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+